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This is the work
I’m riding home after checking muddy water holes for bogged sheep. It’s almost May and the sun is casting a golden light that thickens the air. The…
Apr 29
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On the cusp
It’s too smoky tonight to see the moon rise. I know it’s out there, pulling the tide, tugging at the underground rivers, drawing out the marsupials…
Apr 23
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Maggie Mackellar
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On the art of 'popping in'
My phone pings. “We were wondering if you were home this morning and if the patient was up for a quick visit?” “Yes!” I say. The farmer is on crutches…
Apr 15
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Maggie Mackellar
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What I saw
Twenty one yellow-tailed black cockatoos, rising and falling across the sky. One fawn. Startled, from where it had been planted, pushed deeper into the…
Apr 8
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Maggie Mackellar
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An inhalation (also a postcard)
Helen Garner is famous for writing postcards. Also, Annie Lamott told me years and years ago, that she keeps a one inch picture frame on her desk, and…
Apr 2
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March 2024
Into the wild
(but with support vehicles)
Mar 25
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Maggie Mackellar
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Back in my body
It rained yesterday (oh don’t get excited, not a lot) but we sat on the verandah as the showers swept over us and there was no other place I wished to…
Mar 11
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Postcard from Adelaide
I’m staring out the window of a plane, writing you a postcard in exactly the time it takes to get from Adelaide to Hobart. We are heading south, moving…
Mar 5
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February 2024
I believe I believe
The robins are here, the swallows are gone. The season is on the turn. On my way to check the lambs I count four red breasted sweets on the top wire of…
Feb 26
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Maggie Mackellar
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Impossible things
In the last blast of evening light I watched a swallow follow an eagle into the air. Up and up it went, harassing that huge bird. Forgotten was the…
Feb 19
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On not knowing
This morning, I pulled out a draft manuscript of a novel I planned to take to an online writing workshop. It’s a novel based on my childhood growing up…
Feb 12
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Maggie Mackellar
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Fear of Aging
At twenty-eight she longs to be twenty-five again. I’m reading Lydia Davis, Our Strangers, it’s a book of overheard conversations, of tiny moments…
Feb 5
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Maggie Mackellar
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